Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

New roads; new ruts.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

I am such a political person.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

Everything isn’t political.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.